Patricia García Luján’s work is forthcoming in Coolest American Stories 2023. She is a former culture writer at Vogue and a current James Michener Fellow at the University of Miami’s MFA program. In 2021, she was a Cecelia Joyce Johnson Award finalist and the Sewanee Review Fiction Contest finalist. Luján is at work on a short story collection.
The speed boat moves fast and Genesis notices Kayla’s hair keeps getting into her eyes. She laughs, as do all the others, who bounce up and down and let out…